Chapter 221 is a decisive shot

The western army of the division was converged in Jinzhou, a total of 50,000 troops went straight to Henan Mansion, from Xijing to Tokyo, Yao Pingzhong stayed in Taiyuan Mansion with the Xinfeng Army as the deputy general of the Western Army this time, he didn't know what Xiao Ming was going to do, and most people naturally had hope for Xiao Ming's promise.

Xiao Ming had to wait for his own Golden Army, so he pointed out a clear road to them, Yao Pingzhong took his Xinfeng Army to the east and went straight to Longde Mansion and went to Xiangzhou, where was the rear of the Jin Bing East Route Army, and there was no need to directly fight the Jin soldiers, just destroy its grain routes and later supplies. And when his 10,000 gold army arrives, he will rush over to support.

Yao Pingzhong's morale is relatively high now, Yan Zonghan has retreated to Datong Mansion, that is, Xijing of Liao, and it is impossible to go south in a short time.

So he reorganized the soldiers and horses, led 18,000 Xinfeng troops out of the city, although the Xinfeng Army is controlled by the Western Army, but this army is still Yao Pingzhong has the final say, how can the deputy general of the Western Army have the command of the Xinfeng Army, the rules of the Song Army are that the commander of the marching road is the commander, and the commander is the commander, but he is subject to the supervision of the envoy and the transfer envoy, anyway, his prison is a criminal officer, Yao Pingzhong does not care.

The heroes and heroes of the rivers and lakes of the Blood Alliance all followed Yao Pingzhong, engaging in sneak attacks, and ambushes are their forte, and the alliance leader naturally obeys the order, but Xiao Ming hasn't seen the woman named Zhao Fu disguised as a man for a long time, and I don't know if he followed the seed master Daodong.

Xiao Ming was naturally in no mood to care about this, on the one hand, he was anxiously waiting for the arrival of the Golden Legion, and on the other hand, he was closely following the development of the capital through the contact between the flying kite and Bianjing City.

Since the Jin soldiers crossed the Yellow River, Huizong actually fled, he ordered the prince to supervise the country, but he ran to Nanjing Mansion under the pretext of the southern tour, which is now Shangqiu, Henan, and no one knew about the various cultural relics ministers in Bianjing, which is simply a big joke in the world! If it weren't for the well-informed Yaxing Gang, even Xiao Ming wouldn't have known about this situation.

In the imperial court, Cai Jing and others, Cai You and Liang Shicheng, Wang Hao ran away with Huizong, and Tong Guan took the defeated Tan Shen, raised a forbidden army of 20,000 to follow all the way, and the prince Zhao Huan cried and cried to take over the country's affairs, sat on the Jinluan Palace, and watched the Manchu Dynasty civil and military announce Huizong's edict and ordered him to supervise the country, but how does this country supervise the law?

Right Cheng Bai Shizhong made a statement upward, asking the crown prince to negotiate peace with Jin Bing instead of Emperor Huizong, this proposal was praised by Zhao Huan, but it annoyed Li Gang, the Zhengqing of Taichang Temple! Li Gang said: "Is there no army in the Great Song Dynasty? The Jurchen Tartars are barbarians in the north, who have not been educated for a long time, and now they are peeking into the land of my Celestial Empire, like wolves! ......" then advocated holding on to the city and recruiting the king of the western army.

At the moment, Shangshu Youcheng Zhongshu Shilang He Li and Shangshu Youcheng gave Sun Fu in the matter to discuss and impeach Bai Shizhong for betraying the country, the prince hesitated, but still dismissed Bai Shizhong's officials, and appointed Shangshu Zuocheng Li Bangyan to relocate, levy 20,000 forbidden troops, and guard Huazhou.

The people of Bianliang City sent off the children of the forbidden army to fight, but these officers and soldiers did not know the nature of horses, and refused to let go of the saddle one by one, which made the people stunned.

When the news reached the capital, the prince Zhao Huan cried, and there was a hype in the court, and the prince asked for help from his master Geng Nanzhong, and the prince Geng Nanzhong and his disciple Shaozai and Zhongshu Lang Tang Ke also advocated peace, and the main battle Li Gang, Wu Min, Xu Churen, He Li, Sun Fu and others quarreled together, and at this time received the news that the seed master Dao led the army to Qinwang, Zhao Huan was at ease.

Li Gang was appointed by Zhao Huan at this time as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, Ping Zhangshi, the prince supervised the state of the concession: the pro-expedition camp envoy and the imperial envoy of the four walls of the imperial camp in the capital domain, responsible for the defense of the entire capital, waiting for the rescue of the western army, and at this time Wanyan Zongwang's army had already driven to Bianjing City, and sent the traitor Deng Gui into the city to persuade him to surrender, and the withdrawal conditions proposed by Wanyan Zonghan were very harsh.

Wanyan Zongwang wanted the Great Song Dynasty to cede the land of Ping, Luan, and Jing Prefectures, and compensate the army for military expenses of 5 million taels of gold and 50 million taels of silver! How to get such a high amount of compensation, Zhao Huan naturally didn't dare to agree, but Li Bangyan was just his nephew Li Yue secretly maintained a friendship with Jin Envoy Deng Gui and sent him a lot of gifts.

Li Gang, as the imperial envoy of Bianjing, had a heavy responsibility, pacified the army and the people internally, strengthened the city wall, prepared materials to defend the city, and also sent troops to search for the spies of the Jin State. So Wanyan Zongwang was furious and ordered the Jin army to attack the city.

But this time the Jin soldiers attacked the city just to make a show, and did not really fight, the reason is that the city of Bianjing City is nearly 60 meters high, up to three zhang thick, and there is a moat two zhang wide and two zhang wide, this kind of city wall is not seen by the Jurchens in the north, they really don't know how to mouth, how to break through the city.

And at this time, there was a South Road transfer envoy, Qingzhou Zhizhou, Longtu Pavilion straight bachelor Zhang Shuye asked to see Li Gang, he brought a strange thing for Li Gang, this is all the way from Hangzhou to Weihai by water, and then from Weihai with a car and horse It took half a month to pull it, it was a huge cannon!

Li Gang didn't know what it was, Zhang Shuye took out the letter that Xiao Ming secretly wrote to him and handed it to Li Gang to see, and he knew that it was a super cannon called: Krupp, which is a sharp weapon for defending the city, and can make a difference with one shot!

Zhang Shuye and brought the gunner, when the shell was moved out, Li Gang was startled, at that time, the firearms of the Great Song Dynasty already had a premortar cannon, loaded with gunpowder from the front and then added iron slag gravel and other materials, after igniting the fuse, it can spray out an iron stream like a scattered bullet, which is a kind of artillery used to defend the city, and it can also be loaded with iron bullets to fire, but the kind of iron bullets are still relatively small, and they are wrapped in broken steps and fired out, and they can't go far.

And this giant cannon called "Krupp" uses cannonballs the size of a piglet, and all of them are cast in brass and are streamlined, and there are only five shells in total, and then look at the giant cannon, the thick barrel, black and faint pointing to the sky, there are two rows of six wheels under the huge cannon body to move, I really dare not imagine how powerful.

Since it is a sharp weapon to defend the city, then it must go up to the city wall, right? But this thing is so big, it must be extremely heavy, how can it be dragged up the city wall? If you use manpower, then you can't find a thousand talents?

However, the gunner said that this cannon did not need to go to the city, but only needed to find a flat place in the city, which could fix the giant cannon, and could shoot in any direction, and showed it to Li Gang.

Li Gang ordered people to immediately find a flat land in the city, and fix the cannon according to the gunner's requirements, and at this time, the Jin soldiers actually feinted to attack the city, Zhang Shuye said: "The gold thief is rampant, why don't you try him to see the effect?" ”

With an earth-shattering loud bang, a sky-high fire rose in the camp behind Jin Bing, and the shock wave generated by the explosion blew people and horses to the ground, I don't know how many people who stood close were shocked and bled to death, although he was mentally prepared in advance, Li Gang, who was standing on the city wall to observe the effect, was still scared and his legs trembled!

The power of this giant cannon is too great, as if the huge thunder exploded in his ears, looking at the Jin soldiers who were messed up into a pot of porridge under the city, Li Gang really couldn't believe his eyes, the crater after the shell exploded was more than two zhang wide, and the minced meat of people and horses was scattered on the ground, and the war horses in the Jin barracks didn't know how much they were frightened away.

Wanyan Zongwang's face turned pale, he vaguely remembered this kind of scene, when he attacked Liaodong, Xiao Ming's cannon had brought him such a terror, but the cannon at that time was obviously not as powerful as the one he had seen today, and the sound was not as loud as today's! How can this battle be fought? Could it be that the Song people have already mastered such a killing weapon?

The panicked Wanyan Zongwang hurriedly ordered the army to retreat and set up camp in Mengyang, a remote suburb northwest of Kaifeng, which was already ten miles away from Bianjing, Wanyan Zongwang's withdrawal was not completely deterred by artillery, he also got the news that his two and logistics supply lines were often attacked, and the elite of the Song army's 60,000 Western Army had rushed to Bianjing.

This is not counting, the Western Route Army Wanyan Zonghan's army not only did not take Taiyuan, but was forced back to Datong Mansion, and the formulated two-way attack on the east and west has completely failed, and his lone army will be in danger of annihilation at any time, and whether to withdraw or not to withdraw is always a problem entangled in his mind.

The Bianjing City of the Great Song Dynasty is celebrating the success, this is really a hit! , The imposing Jin soldiers were preparing to attack Bianjing City, but they were blown away by a cannon, even the crown prince Zhao Huan did not expect that Li Gang urgently recruited Zhang Shuye and asked him, who made this cannon?

And just when they were making a fuss, Xiao Ming actually drove from behind the Jin army with tens of thousands of troops, and arrived in Bianjing almost one after the other with the Western army! And he didn't know that because of the power of the Krupp cannon, Li Gang was eager to see him .......

Wanyan Zongwang's garrison is not far away from Bianjing, and the soldiers and horses of the Qinwang who have entered Beijing have entered the city one after another, so they naturally can't hide the Jin soldiers scouts, seeing that the Great Song Dynasty is now strong and strong, Wanyan Zongwang is even more cute, but this guy is not very willing, and it seems that it is a bit more than worth the loss to go like this.

Xiao Ming entered the city with his men and horses, and now he not only has the 10,000 heavy cavalry of the Golden Legion led by Han Yanwen, but also Yao Pingzhong's 18,000 Xinfeng Army in hand.

The Western Army rushed to Bianjing first, and Li Gang was also thinking about planting the master at this time to ask who Xiao Ming was? It is not easy to hide it, but he still did not reveal Xiao Ming's true identity of the Song people, but Xiao Ming's true identity had already been told to Li Gang by Zhang Shuye.

So what Xiao Ming didn't expect was that when he first arrived in Bianjing City, it was Li Gang who came to see him first! This can surprise Xiao Ming a lot! Who is Li Gang? That is a famous figure in history, and these figures came to see Xiao Ming in person, which shows that Xiao Ming is already hot in Bianjing City......